Narendra Modi's attack on the UPA government on economic growth has the Congress and the BJP hurling statistics and words at each other this morning. First, Finance Minister P Chidambaram accused the Gujarat Chief Minister of "staging a fake encounter with facts" for having said on Sunday that, "the growth rate was 8.4 per cent during the regime of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and it is 4.8 per cent under this (UPA) government."